Faith · Books

Foma Gordeyev Accuses the Merchant Yakov Mayakin in a Work by Maxim Gorky

You built no life: you have made a cesspit! You have bred filth and stuffiness by your deeds. Have you a conscience? Do you remember God? The five-kopeck piece is your god! And your conscience you have driven out... Bloodsuckers! You live on another's strength! How many

NB! · Museums · Heritage · Society

The first to tell the gendarmerie about yesterday's robbery of the Lalique Museum was not the security firm but the cleaning lady

NB! · Faith · Observations

However terrible the things that happen in the world, we must remember that the Lord will once more reveal His glory and grant men peace

NB! · Moscow · Observations · Society · Humour

While Nobody Was Looking, the Toilers of Moscow's Municipal Budgetary Institutions from Central Asia Have Begun to Be Replaced by Specialists from Sunny Hindustan

While nobody was looking, the toilers of Moscow's municipal budgetary institutions (the GBU) from Central Asia have begun to be replaced by specialists from sunny Hindustan. The new ethnogeopolitical realities of our courtyard

NB! · Society · Humour

Macron Was Not Prepared for the Swedes to Take a Baguette Hostage

Architecture · Art · London · Monarchies

Model of the Elizabeth II memorial in St James's Park at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

A model of the memorial to Elizabeth II in St James's Park. The three-metre bronze figure will be based on a portrait of the Queen in her youth. In the background one can see a small sculpture of the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip. The memorial complex

Coming Up · London · Museums · Society · Ethnography

British Museum opens exhibition on Indigenous peoples and American independence

The British Museum has opened a most interesting exhibition on the USA. It is not, however, a parade of panegyrics for the 250th anniversary of the United States, but a reminder that many indigenous peoples were not at all delighted by American independence. Although the exhibition, Declaring Independence: USA 250,

A single-storey orange-brown wooden house with white window frames and a stone base. It stands on a quiet street under tall trees, behind a corrugated metal fence.

NB! · Observations

Single-storey wooden house with white window frames behind a metal fence

Architecture · Books · Moscow · Observations · Heritage

Restoration completed of the Toplenin house on Mansurovsky Lane, which Bulgakov visited

The restoration of the Melnikov-Yemelyanova-Toplenin house on Mansurovsky Lane has been completed. This wooden residence on a nineteenth-century stone plinth is commonly called "the Master's house": rumour assigns the Master of The Master and Margarita a little basement flat in this very building.

Almaty · Archaeology · Observations · Science

Genomes of 85 Iron Age nomads show high status was inherited through kinship

A colossal new study changes our picture of how power was organised among the Scythians. According to a collective paper recently published in Science Advances, high status among the early nomads of Eurasia was inherited along family lines rather than won anew by each generation. The researchers analysed whole-genome

Art · Museums · Heritage · Saint Petersburg

The Hermitage shows Titian’s “Saint Sebastian” after three years of restoration

An exhibition of a single painting, "Titian. The Last Masterpiece: Saint Sebastian", has opened at the Hermitage. The end of the canvas's three-year restoration coincides with the 450th anniversary of Titian's death. The picture was painted in the technique of pittura a macchia,

Archaeology · Archive · Books · Science

A team led by the University of Kentucky virtually unrolled a papyrus from Herculaneum

For the First Time in History, One of the Charred Herculaneum Scrolls Has Been Read in Full. An international team of engineers and scholars led by the University of Kentucky has virtually unrolled a papyrus from the Villa of the Papyri, the library that perished together with Herculaneum in the

Alexandr Radayev